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...gave Producer Thalberg a chance to enlarge upon his system to an extent which other producers hoped would prove a reductio ad absurdum. The cast of Grand Hotel is the most celebrated, the most expensive in cinema history. It would surely have included other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars (Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Marie Dressier, Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton, Jackie Cooper, John Gilbert, Ramon Novarro) if there had been a few more rooms in the Grand Hotel...
...powerful men who appeared at the Geneva Conference last week were Col. William Taylor, representing the du Pont interests; and bluff "Big Navy Bill," Mr. William B. Shearer. At the Geneva Conference of 1927 to which President Coolidge sent a particularly strong U. S. Delegation, Mr. Shearer, according to charges made in the Press, was able to organize an anti-disarmament lobby so powerful that it wrecked the Conference. Du Pont's Taylor sat a while in the Conference gallery. But "Big Navy Bill" disdained for the most part to watch so paltry a show as the Conference...
Anyone so misguided as to disregard the Playgoer's advice to see Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery in "Private Lives" when it appeared in Boston some while back, has been pityingly spared by the Fates; now he is furnished with another chance to see this happy interlude of infidelity and infatuation, which is now appearing at the University Theatre, in conjunction with Douglas Fairbanks' travel picture "Around the World in Eighty Minutes...
...Private Lives" is a succession of romantic seenes and dynamic situations peopled by selfish yet utterly charming personalities. Dramatic flares of invective alternate with cosy hours of idyllic romancing as Miss Shearer and Mr. Montgomery, newly-wedded, but not to each other, lead Reginald Denny and Una Merkel, their lawful mates, a merry chase through alpine scenes of photographic excellence. Sophisticated without being stilted, explosively theatrical without being either absurd or the least unconvincing, "Private Lives" stands at the top of the Playgoer's list of the season's comedies...
...votes. Seniority of service has advanced him to the chairmanship of the Naval Affairs Committee. Sincerely believing in the largest fighting fleet possible, he is the legislative spokesman of the Navy's General Board. When President Hoover called for an investigation of Big-Navy lobbying by William B. Shearer, he went all in a fidget to his old friend and Harvard classmate, the late Undersecretary of State, Joseph Potter Cotton, who advised him: "Freddie, you've been here 13 years and haven't done a thing. Maine hasn't had a statesman since James G. Elaine...